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All Episodes

Founder Notes with Nelson Chu and Prath Reddy — 28 episodes

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Title
1

Don’t Fall for the Headlines

2

The Banks Want It Both Ways

3

Growing Pains

4

Surviving Long Enough to Get Lucky

5

I Can’t Keep Up

6

Do The Work

7

When SaaS Breaks, Credit Blinks

8

When Private Credit Falls Apart

9

Good Things Happen Over Time. Great Things Happen All At Once.

10

Why We Built SMAs (and Who They’re For)

11

Back to Square One (On Purpose)

12

Builders Wanted: Wiring the Future of Private Markets

13

Volatility Laundering and the Moat Money Can’t Buy

14

The Unconventional PM: From Series 7 to Shipping Product

15

Building Infra in the Market Wall Street Doesn’t Want to Fix

16

The Matchmaker: Inside Private Credit Syndication with Paola Rios

17

The $200K Bet That Built a Billion-Dollar Marketplace

18

The Bouncer at the Door: How We Choose Which Deals to Fund

19

Singles & Doubles: Why the Grand Slam Startup Model is Dying

20

The Business of Buying Businesses: Inside SMB Acquisitions

21

What Rising Tariffs Mean for Main Street (and for Us)

22

Scaling by Doing: How Startups Actually Grow

23

Staying in the Game: Four Mantras That Guide My Journey

24

The Long Game: Building a Global Fintech with Charlie Lienau

25

Crisis, Opportunity, and Evolution: The Percent Story

26

The Art of the Board: Building Relationships that Scale

27

A 400 bps Reduction: A Private Credit Success Story

28

From Debt to Disruption: My Journey with Percent